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ZitatJim Lange was the original and best-known host of a television show that has come to be identified with the swinging late 1960s and 1970s: "The Dating Game.""We were really the first reality show," he said in a 2002 Times interview, "paving the way for Howard Stern, Jerry Springer, 'Big Brother.'"Not that Lange, who graduated cum laude from the University of Minnesota, was so proud of those offspring. He spent more than 50 years in radio and television and hoped to one day have a TV talk show. But Lange felt his association with "The Dating Game" stymied loftier ambitions, and he knew it would be his legacy."It'll be on my tombstone," he said in a 1991 San Francisco Chronicle interview.Lange, 81, died Tuesday at his home in Mill Valley. The cause was a heart attack, said his daughter, Romney."The Dating Game" first went on the air on the ABC network in late 1965 when Lange was already a popular host on KSFO-AM radio in San Francisco. "He used to do the 6-to-10 morning drive time at the radio station," Romney Lange said, "then three days a week he would get on a plane, fly to L.A., tape five 'Dating Game' shows and fly back."The upbeat daytime TV show, in which three single men would answer staff-written questions read by an unseen prospective date, was designed to be slightly titillating. "We dealt in innuendo, romance," Lange said in the Times interview. "No swear words or off-color stuff."Although male contestants were occasionally featured as questioners, in most cases it was a woman who would be doing the asking before picking her date (an expenses-paid, chaperoned outing) based on his answers. Lange said this marked a reversal in the era's norms."When 'The Dating Game' came out, women had to wait for a man to call" for a date, Lange said. "Having them make the choices appealed to the female population, the target demographic."Some contestants later became famous, including Farrah Fawcett, introduced by Lange as "an accomplished artist and sculptress." John Ritter was on a panel as "a college student majoring in drama." Michael Jackson, Steve Martin, Andy Kaufman, Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck also appeared, as did two future governors: Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Jennifer Granholm of Michigan.While hosting, Lange was often decked out in fashions of the era, including neon-colored jackets with wide lapels resembling glider wings. Sometimes he sported a pastel-colored tux and a shirt with voluminous ruffles. "That was not my dad's choice," Romney Lange said. "He was never a fan of that."A nighttime version of the show ran on ABC from 1966 to 1970. The daytime version was on the network until 1973, then in syndication for an additional year. The show was revived in 1978, again in syndication, and ran until 1980. He went on to host other TV game shows, including the "$1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime" and the "$100,000 Name That Tune." But he was trapped by his "Dating Game" image. "It stigmatized me," he said in the Chronicle interview. "I wouldn't even be considered for commercials because I was so identified with that one image."James John Lange was born Aug. 15, 1932, in St. Paul, Minn. At age 15 he won an audition to work at a local radio station, as a disc jockey and sports reporter. He studied radio and television speech, with a minor in journalism at the university, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. In the mid-1950s he got his first TV hosting job, portraying the title character on the local "Captain 11" show in which he'd introduce science fiction adventures such as "Buck Rogers."After a stint in the Marines, Lange moved to San Francisco, where he called himself the All-Night Mayor while working the night shift at KGO radio, according to the Bay Area Radio Digest. He moved to KSFO in 1960 and two years later got his break in national television as the announcer on a show staring country singer Tennessee Ernie Ford. "They wanted a young, urbane-type person," Lange told the Chronicle, "to counteract his country image."Though he gained international fame from "The Dating Game," Lange's true love in the broadcast field was radio. "TV happened kind of by accident," said Romney Lange. "He had a good voice and he was good-looking. But radio is what he grew up on and he always loved it."In addition to working at stations in San Francisco, where he had shows until 2005, Lange worked at KMPC radio in Los Angeles in the early 1970s and then again in the 1980s.In addition to his daughter, Lange is survived by his wife, Nancy; sons Gavin and Nicolas; stepdaughter Ingrid; stepson Steig; sister Midge; and four grandchildren.
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Rodney Alcala was described during his 1978 appearance on the show as a successful photographer who enjoyed sky-diving and motorcycling. But most people today know him as "The Dating Game Killer." Chillingly, Alcala was midway through his spree of killings when he made his "Dating Game" appearance. Despite having served time twice (once for assaulting an underage girl), Alcala was permitted as a guest on the show. His answers to the questions knowing his past make this appearance even more disturbing.


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WEDNESDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- People suffering from Parkinson's disease can benefit from deep brain stimulation in either one of two sites in the brain, a new study finds.
The Veterans Affairs researchers compared two different targets in the brain for deep brain stimulation -- the subthalamic nucleus (STN) and the globus pallidus interna (GPi) -- both of which affect motor function. The procedure involves placing a fine wire into either of the two areas, after which an implanted battery delivers a finely tuned electrical current to stimulate the brain, often resulting in dramatic improvement in motor function.
"Most of the neurosurgery field has been using the STN target, with little strong evidence that it was the best target for stimulation," said researcher Frances Weaver, director of the Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care at Hines VA Hospital in Illinois.
"But recent reports suggest that there may be some negative consequences of STN targeting, including cognitive and psychological changes," she added.
The report is published in the June 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
For this study, researchers compared the STN and GPi targets in a randomized trial and looked at patient outcomes. In the trial, 299 patients were assigned to either STN or GPi deep brain stimulation.
Weaver's team found that patients improved equally in motor function, regardless of which target was used.
Overall, about half of the patients had serious side effects. The most common was infection at the incision site. By the end of the two-year study, 99% of these side effects were resolved.
"The decision as to which target in the brain to stimulate to treat Parkinson's disease should consider the other symptoms and problems of Parkinson's disease," Weaver said. For example, the use of medications can be reduced to a greater extent after STN stimulation than GPi stimulation, she noted.
"Medication has effects on other symptoms, so if a patient is experiencing other symptoms besides motor problems that are better managed by medication, you may want to select the GPi -- where less reduction in medication is necessary," Weaver said.
Both STN and GPi deep brain stimulation are equally effective in improving motor symptoms in people with advanced Parkinson's disease, Weaver said.
"Serious adverse events are frequent for both targets, but are resolved through stimulation or medication adjustments, and other interventions, as needed," she added.
Dr. Michael Okun, national medical director of the National Parkinson Foundation, said that "this is an important study for Parkinson's disease patients and for their doctors as it opens the door for tailoring therapy and for tailoring brain targets for individual symptom profiles."
He added: "This two-year prospective randomized study showed that both STN and GPi were effective in treating the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease, and that there were subtle but potentially important differences between targets."
The first signs of Parkinson's are usually motor control problems such as shaking, rigidity, slowed movement and poor balance. In later stages, patients develop a variety of cognitive and mood problems, including depression, apathy, slowed thinking, confusion, impaired memory and trouble sleeping.
In early stages of the disease, motor symptoms can be controlled by medications such as L-dopa. But for patients with advanced Parkinson's, the drugs are less effective.
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Han F. Vermeulen, Arturo Alvarez Roldan. Fieldwork and Footnotes: Studies in the History of European Anthropology. European Association of Social Anthropologists. London: Routledge, 1995. xi + 261 S. $44.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-415-10656-6; $130.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-10655-9.
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H. F. Vermeulen u.a. (Hgg.): Fieldwork and Footnotes
Writing for your own tribe or for the academic community?
No doubt, approaching the history of science is one of the most intellectually challenging parts of any academic discipline. And this challenge has increased significantly in the past decade or so, now that the history of science is no longer the story of Great-Men-Making-Great-Inventions-in-a-Flash-of-Genius.Studies of this kind tended, on the one hand, to ignore the intellectual precursors and the academic setting of inventions and discoveries while, on the other hand, taking the sacrosanctity of science for granted and leaving aside the Bourdieu-ian aspects of academe. Nowadays, moreover, history of science is no longer limited to the history of technology, natural sciences, and medicine. (Although, by the way, the H-Net list H-SCI-MED-TECH still tends to uphold this definition of the field.) In the social sciences and humanities, the history of a discipline used to be an integral part of the discipline itself. For the most part, history of science was a practical help and a starting point for future research, rather than a reflection on the why and how of science as such. . S. Woolgar, Science: The Very Idea (London 1988), pp. 83-111.
In the disciplines of ethnology and anthropology, the reflexive movement and the ethnological method of participant observation have led to peculiar effects as far as the history of science is concerned: after years and years of studying exotic tribes in the jungle, anthropologists and ethnologists came home and developed an interest in "home-made" exotic cultures. They began to see academic institutes or disciplines (including their own) as exotic tribes, with rituals, traditions, and beliefs of their own.
The compilation 'Fieldwork and Footnotes' is the product of the second workshop on the history of European anthropology, part of the conference by the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) held in Prague, August 1992. A first-ever workshop on this topic had been part of a previous EASA conference in Coimbra in September 1990. The History of European Anthropology Network and its newsletter, initiated for the third workshop in Oslo June 1994, seem to have lead a marginal existence since. The sixteen contributors of the book are from Spain, Scotland, Germany, Mexico, Romania, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Slovenia, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. Their short biographies already outline the subject of the book and the paradoxes of European anthropology. The names of their institutes range from "social and/or cultural anthropology" to "anthropology and history" to "ethnology and (cultural) anthropology" or even "comparative culture studies" (pp. vii-viii).
The introduction by the two editors is a good example for explaining my ambiguity towards this book. The introduction and the issues it raises - the question of the origins and periodization of anthropology and the institutional development of anthropology (a.k.a. ethnology) in Europe - whet the appetite of the reader. Nevertheless, this introduction (and the book as a whole) might have been much more readable if the editors and authors had kept in mind that the history of anthropology is a minor subdiscipline, chief occupation for only a few. The pace and depth of their essays suggest that they tend to forget this, although they said so themselves in their acknowledgments, that this book is "a small independent place to exchange their ideas [on the history of European anthropology]." Therefore, a more extensive contextualization for the general anthropological reader might have been appropriate. The current introduction is bound to confuse your ordinary mortal: The existence of a debate on the developmental stages of anthropology is suggested, but it is not borne out by the rest of the book. The editor Vermeulen, moreover, later on admits that it is just a word game; as long as one distinguishes between the raising of anthropological questions and the institutionalization of anthropology, there is "a consensus on the main stages that a chronological scheme of the history of anthropology should cover" (p. 7). The second question of the introduction (on institutionalization) is approached by the editor Roldan from such an angle and using so much detail that one either has to be an expert in this subdiscipline or has to have read the whole book attentively before.
The first part of the book discusses the early origins of ethnography and its institutionalization in Europe and the United States, as well as its philosophical and historical roots, in four chapters. The first chapter by Michael Harbsmeier upholds the fiction of a debate on the origins of anthropology. Like the editor in his introduction, he too admits that one's dating of the beginnings of anthropology is bound to be influenced by the concept of anthropology one uses: Is it a Begriffsgeschichte of "ethnology" and its equivalents, the institutionalization in the nineteenth century, or is it the much older European habit of "some kind of eye-witness observation [...] and the art of describing 'other' cultures and societies"? (p. 20).
The other two chapters in this part - the one on the philosophical roots and Hegel by Gheorghita Geana and the one on historical roots and the works of Adolf Bastian by Klaus-Peter Koepping - again have all the characteristics of a scientific paper presented for a small inner circle of specialists. Again, the approaches are interesting, but for a chapter in a book one might have wished to see some didactic concessions to the reader.
The second part of the book introduces some well-chosen great anthropologists and their favorite objects of study as stepping stones in the development of anthropological thinking. The chapter by Alan Barnard on Lord Monboddo and the "nobility" of the Orang Outang discusses questions of the sociability of mankind and the relation between animal and man. Monboddo (like Rousseau) accepted the idea that Orang Outangs were essentially human, as intellect, not speech, was their defining characteristic of mankind. Another chapter in this part which made some fascinating reading is Jan de Wolf's essay on H.J. Nieboer and the study of slavery, although the didactic problem pops up again. Having used two pages for his bibliography, De Wolf has fourteen pages left to make his argument: "While it is commonplace knowledge that the emphasis on the collection of primary data contributed to the newly emerging functionalist paradigm early in this century, it is less well known that secondary analysis through systematic comparison of many different societies could have a similar anti-evolutionist effect. In this chapter I should like to demonstrate this through the work of the Dutch scholar H.J. Nieboer (1873-1920) on slavery." Rather than using this limited space to make a clear and consistent argument, De Wolf feels he should also "contextualize this work in relation to his [Nieboer's] mentor Steinmetz as well as to some broader political and economic issues and their social policy implications" (p. 113). This leaves him all of four pages to demonstrate his views on Nieboer and slavery.
He then distinguished between two traditions in Dutch anthropology: Wilken and the study of native peoples of the Dutch East Indies, Steinmetz and the theoretical concerns with savages as a specific category of human being, as well as the implications for the study of one's own society. Steinmetz searched for laws as descriptive regularities and empirical generalizations of developmental stages. From this perspective, colonial peoples represented the closest thing at hand for the study of early developmental stages of mankind. Nieboer, being Steinmetz' student, applied the methodological ideas of his professor in his dissertation on slavery, focusing on sociological laws of current phenomena rather than on the early history of mankind. Evidently, having defined slavery, Nieboer found it impossible to come up with a bullet-proof set of iron rules of factors causing slavery. The article does have a point of demonstrating that in a strict sense Nieboer was neither a functionalist nor an evolutionist, although the flood of details and specialists' information might detract the reader.
The third part of the book, "Anthropological traditions in Europe," contains five national case studies on the development of the discipline(s) and a final chapter on the paradoxes of the history of anthropologies of Europe. Tomas Gerholm argues that while Swedish anthropology (defined as the discipline dealing with non-European peoples and societies) was peripheral in the international community of anthropologists, ethnology much less so because of the international standing of Sigurd Erixon (1888-1938). He argued that European ethnology should be part of general ethnology (i.e., anthropology). Nevertheless, two separate disciplines became consolidated in Sweden, and both follow the lead of the international centers, rather than working with their colleagues next door.
The next two chapters deal with anthropology in Slovenia and Poland. With all due respect, the history of the discipline in these two states in the twentieth century presupposes a separate chapter on the development of anthropology in Russia and the USSR which is not really as unknown and undocumented as the editors seem to suggest, . See, for instance, 'Soviet and Western Anthropology', ed. E. Gellner (London: 1980) or W. van Meurs, "Ethnographie in der USSR: Jaeger oder Sammler? in: 'Inszenierung des Nationalen', eds. B. Binder, P. Niedermueller (Berlin 1998), forthcoming. although the influence of Soviet ethnography on East European academic traditions might be (p. 10). In the Soviet Union, the name of the game was "ethnography" and it has been on the rise ever since the 1960s (under Bromley) and basically even since Sergei Tolstov became director of the Academy institute in 1943. In Slovakia, the discipline also gained ground in the 1960s when it got an institute of its own. Quite remarkably (compared to the Soviet model), however, this institute was called the Department of Ethnology, to be renamed Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology recently. (The institute in Moscow was renamed Institute for Anthropology and Ethnology in 1991 as well).
A flaw of the book in this respect is its lack of consistency in the use of the terms "anthropology," "ethnology," and "ethnography." This may seem a truism and an unfair or even illogical point of criticism as the definitional history (Begriffsgeschichte) of these concepts is exactly what this book is all about. With so many possible distinctions between anthropology, ethnology, and ethnography, a separate systematic chapter would have been extremely helpful. Basically, we are discussing two (related) problems: Question 1) What criteria came to predominate in a national tradition to distinguish disciplines within this field--historical versus non-historical, descriptive versus comparative, European versus non-European? Question 2) What labels (anthropology, ethnology, and ethnography) were used to describe each of the disciplines thus defined? The authors of the chapter on Slovenia, for instance, write, "the vague demarcation between anthropology and ethnology (or ethnography, which dominates in Slovakia) ..." (p. 171). Here, like in most East European states, the study of the own people predominates. This is--according to the authors Smitek and Jereznik -ethnology or ethnography, whereas the study of other non-Western peoples (anthropology) is virtually non-existent in Slovenia. In the nineteenth century, ethnology or ethnography had a role to play in nation-building, and after World War II the study of modern society (e.g. social stratification in a kolkhoze) was influenced by Soviet materialist ethnography rather than by subjectivist Western cultural anthropology.
In Poland in the nineteenth century, the opposition between ethnography as the study of (Polish) folk traditions and anthropology was mediated by an ethnology of non-European peoples which had both descriptive and comparative elements. In the interwar period, however, the discipline with a task in bringing the peoples and cultures of previously divided Poland together into one national culture was called "ethnology." Under communism, ethnology became part of descriptive ethnography studying contemporary social processes, while social and cultural anthropology virtually disappeared (like in the Soviet Union). In contrast to the Soviet example, however, Polish ethnography never became a study of primitive peoples, which makes sense as Poland lacked the far-away places and "primitive" peoples in its own state that the multinational Soviet empire had. According to the authors Jasiewicz and Slattery, the main task of Polish post-communist ethnography is now to re-introduce elements of ethnology and re-establish contact with Western institutions.
The last two case studies of this part, on Germany and Mexico, also illustrate the "unity through diversity" of European anthropology exemplarily. All in all, however, the national case studies leave the reader confused, bedazzled, and bewildered. I, at least, could not see the wood of unity for the trees of diversity. Therefore, Schippers' final chapter on "anthropologies of Europe," which does identify some common denominators in the national histories of the discipline, should have been placed at the beginning of the third part. He identifies an all-European trend to distinguish between physical and social/cultural anthropology before World War I. He also identifies the absence/availability of "primitive peoples" (colonies) as one of the explanations for the national predominance of either nomothetic English-oriented fieldwork ethnology or cumulative-descriptive German-oriented ethnography, a distinction which developed in the interwar period. After World War II, the schism was between Anglo-American ethnology, which predominated in Western Europe, and Soviet ethnography, which dominated in Eastern Europe. Ethnology, however, came "home" and no longer distinguished between European and non-European societies. His scheme does not replace the chapters on national diversity, but it is a much-needed guide to see the diversity in the right perspective.
A question not raised at all in this book is the development of the "world out there": When anthropology was young in the early nineteenth century, it was at least hypothetically possible to encounter "natives", "virgins" in terms of anthropological investigation. By the end of the twentieth century, every tribe has its own web-site and western development-aid workers, every group subjected to ethnological investigation uses the results reflexively to present and represent itself. . R. Speth, Review of Kulturen - Identitaeten - Diskurse, ed. W. Kaschuba (Berlin 1995) in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, No. 3 (1996), pp. 630-631. Fortunately, the reverse side of this issue, which is closely related to the persistence of professional stereotypes and disciplinary profiles, recently produced a major discussion in H-SAE (17-23 January 1998--"Absence of Europe in the introductory textbook"). Is Europe completely modern and therefore "none of an anthropologist's business?
In terms of breadth, price and structure, this book would make a really excellent introduction in the history of anthropology for students, but - as I said - it would have required a bit more effort and empathy on the part of the authors and the editors.
If there is additional discussion of this review, you may access it through the network, at: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/.
Wim van Meurs. Review of Vermeulen, Han F.; Roldan, Arturo Alvarez, Fieldwork and Footnotes: Studies in the History of European Anthropology. European Association of Social Anthropologists.
H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Net Reviews.
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Halloran is a Libertarian Republican, which means he is short on social policy and long on individual rights. Regardless of Halloran's congressional run for Gary Ackerman's seat in New York's 6th District, the landscape to push back against a proposal like this is right in the councilman's wheelhouse.
Halloran railed at a recent protest that the city was quiet when Mayor Michael Bloomberg took on salt, MSG, and calorie counts. "Citizen Dan" Halloran is in his comfort zone on this issue. Standing there between two women, dressed as giant cups of soda, he defended the rights of consumers.
What the mayor is banking on is that early discomfort will eventually give way to compliance. The same early "Sturm und Drang" emerged with the smoking ban. The ban later became common place. Halloran wants people to stay heated on this issue.
Maybe he is right...about rights. The fact is, however, some of us like those calorie counts on food. It becomes obvious that we have adjusted to these laws when we visit other cities and realize that they do not post calories.
The best way for Mayor Bloomberg to have approached the issue of full sugar drinks would be to continue with the public service announcements and subway ads that explained just how much sugar is in those beverages. There is no need for a law if the public is adequately informed.
The city could probably take a break from its anti-smoking campaign and replace it somewhat with ads about full sugar drinks. In the end, it is a matter of choice, but every once in a while an issue comes along that is a candidate's cup of (unsweetened) tea.
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Unemployment in the United States is still an uncomfortable 7.8 percent, but that is a number that will eventually drop a little bit as the economy rebounds.
It took a long time for the economy to unravel, and if a recovery is going to be a lasting one, it too will take some time. But what about these employers who are going to be doing the hiring in the next five to 10 years?
We know that a great deal of the hiring process happens online: online job notices, online applications, online resumes, and sites like LinkedIn that corral both employers and job seekers. We know that people doing the hiring check us out online. They check to see what pops up on Google. They often see what our Facebook accounts might reveal about us.
We've gotten used to that, but what about our political activity? If you donate money to a candidate in a particular party, does that brand you as someone they might not like even before you walk through the door?
Two years ago, a friend who is a prominent professor at a small university was debating another distinguished professor on Barack Obama's job performance. My friend was there to defend the president's short tenure in office. He never expressed his party allegiance (a rarity in academics) until students found his history of contributions posted online.
This is what got him invited to defend the president, since they knew he gave money to Obama's campaign. The point is that this was a man who obviously had political opinions, and yet kept them out of his professional life, until they surfaced online.
My friend is a professor of politics (some universities refuse to use the term "political science"), so he was not worried too much about the revelation. But would people seeking employment in, say, the government sector be hindered by sending in $25 to the local Republican candidate? Would an applicant be at a disadvantage if he or she donated to a Democratic candidate while applying for a position in the defense industry?
The potential to hurt one's career through contributions is a big deal. We know that contributions are a form of speech, and yet the very subtle act of an online contribution can stymie a job search. At 7.8 percent unemployment, employers have a larger pool from which to hire, so beware of what you give and where you give it.


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During this year's Christmas dinner, my 13-year-old cousin told me that one of his friends said The Big Bang Theory was "nerd blackface," a harsh accusation that is pretty hard to dispute.
Geeks are not a downtrodden minority or an outcast group. The comparison is childish and offensive. I, for one, will continue to salute The Big Bang Theory for not making awkwardness cute and endearing, and making isolation sad and uncomfortable, and staying skeptical of all things being resolved by geeky specialness and be-who-you-are pixie dust, but that's me. (I'm very comfortable in my nerdiness.)
Sure, The Big Bang Theory often mocks geekiness, but I think it mocks the parts that really, really need to be mocked. The precious self-obsession, the carefully nurtured sense of prosecution, the tedious Ender's Game mix of elitism and self pity. At least, that's what the reactions to the show seem to often bring out. The ability to type out the words "Nerd Blackface" and not wilt in shame. Can we please, at least, stop saying that?


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The Buell Brothers come as a pair – they are the brother team in the Rockies. Michael Buell is the senior brother, and lays claim to having competed in 3 World Cup DH races at Andorra, Fort William and Monte Sainte Anne, as well as many other National and International races. A consistent top 10 finisher pre-2009, Michael's 2009 season suffered from an ankle injury early on, but he managed to make an awesome comeback with a few podium finishes and 4th Overall in the Mountain States Cup Gravity Series. Fully recovered and now relieved of team management by a professional staff, he's ready to get back to the business of full-time training and racing on his new Banshee rides in 2010. He's back!
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Brian Buell has frequent flyer status on the podium in the highly competitive Mountain States Cup Gravity Series, with a 2nd Overall finish in 2009. He was 2005 Junior Expert National 4X Champion, 2007 Collegiate National DH Champion, and has mile-long list of National podium finishes since then, including a bronze medal for this year's 4X National Championships, and 1st place for DS at Colorado Crankworx. His International experience includes 3 World Cup DH races in Andorra, Fort William and Monte Sainte Anne. Better be wearing your sunglasses if he smiles at you, especially in the starting gate! Consistent, strong and great karma (with a capital "K") – he is one to watch out for in 2010.
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Graeme Pitts is the baby in the group. At 19, he competed in the Pan Am Continental Championships in Chile, came home with UCI points, and pulled off a reputable rookie Pro year with a number of top 10 finishes against some tried and true competitors. In 2008, he was part of the formidable posse of the USA Junior Worlds Team in Italy after only 3 months in the Junior Expert class. Pitts will be spending the early part of 2010 in Australia with teammate Cody Eichhorn and his compadres. When the US race season starts, he will already have gotten into race mode at the Australian National Series, training with their top gravity riders.
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Cody Eichhorn – the wild card addition to the team from the Land of Oz. He will arrive from down under ready to race his first Sea Otter Classic – Eichhorn has been dreaming of spending his birthday at Sea Otter for a few years, and now it's becoming reality. Managing to complete Uni (as University is called in Oz) while still racking up a huge list of podium finishes, Team Geronimo's new Aussie competed in 2008 World Championships in 4X, a number of World Cup Races, Kokanee Crankworx, and was invited back to Worlds this year, but was too busy traveling and racing with Pitts in the US of A. He took California by storm, acing out Eric Carter and Rich Houseman in the first round of 4X at Cal State Champs at Mammoth Mountain. He brings the Aussie flair and is an all around crowd pleaser.
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Team Geronimo is also parent to an awesome Junior Development Team based out of Aspen Valley, Colorado. Managed by Brandon Turman, it is a collection of some of the hottest young talent in The Rockies and they are being mentored with Junior World Championships as the objective.
Plans are already in the works for Team Geronimo's collaboration with The Wounded Warrior Project – returning, injured soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan who are regaining their passion for life through bicycles. The team is working with WWP organizers to schedule coaching clinics and entertainment with these worthy riders who put themselves in harm's way so we can all keep living our dream.
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It struck me on a recent trip south that Melburnians appear to be living in some sort of nirvana. Not only is there no 1.30am lockout, no discernable traffic and no State of Origin, but property in Melbourne is vaguely affordable, whether to rent or buy.
As a born and bred Sydneysider, this is astounding. Here, a fibro shack within cooee of a train station will soak up most of your income. There, agents are flogging new CBD apartments for $400 a week.
Chris Johnson, head of the Urban Taskforce which represents property developers, says Sydney's price premium is partly driven by our harbour views, which drive the top end of the market. But Melbourne has also done a much better of job of building sufficient housing for its growing population, particularly in the inner city.
"[Sydney's] slow supply has a big impact on the cost of housing because there's just not enough of it," Johnson says.
New government figures published by the Herald show an additional 2 million people will live in NSW by 2031, and more than 660,000 homes will need to materialise in Sydney itself. These are revised forecasts and could be revised upward again.
How these 5.9 million Sydneysiders will co-exist in a city adamant not to build anything is unclear.
The newly-announced Darling Square precinct, which will house 4000 people across seven towers on the old Entertainment Centre site, is a welcome development. Even there, in the middle of the CBD, some dared to suggest that 40 storeys would be simply too high.
Sydney councils like to boast of meeting and exceeding their growth targets as set by the state government. But these remain fairly muted aspirations. Leichhardt, for example, was required to build 2400 new dwellings from 2004 to 2036 - an average of 75 a year.
The "not in my backyard" crowd is often characterised as a benign, pro-sustainability collective who just want to preserve their quaint cafes and quiet streets from the looming threat of outsiders.
But the true face of NIMBYism is a professional resistance movement comprising older generations who, having inherited or negatively geared their way into property ownership, have no interest in it being affordable to anybody else. Planning expert Bill Randolph told the Herald this week that a "real tension" will arise if older households fail to downsize and make way for young families, who increasingly want to raise kids in urban areas.
The state's new planning laws are now the domain of Pru Goward. At the heart of the legislation is a smart sentiment - decide on a planning framework and then stick with it, instead of endless debate about any one development proposal. But even this is needlessly more complex than simply following a well-worn path: take what Melbourne does and do the opposite.
Our Melburnian cousins have courageously proposed to build 1.6 million new dwellings by 2051, with two-thirds of them being apartments. This is good. But at least 50 per cent of the city's residential land will be quarantined from development by allowing local councils to declare a "neighbourhood residential zone". Such a zoning, which could be applied to "areas with neighbourhood character overlays" (whatever that is), would prohibit townhouses and apartments, leaving only the barren monotone of detached suburbia.
Rather than these flat-earth zones, where high-rise is verboten, Sydney should ban the construction of free-standing homes anywhere east of, say, Parramatta. All new construction would have a minimum density requirement. Any redevelopment of existing property would need to at least double its occupancy capacity, including home-owners undertaking a knock-down-and-rebuild.
Under this system, heritage would be preserved while also recognising that it cannot and need not last forever. Sprawling estates could still be permitted at the city's edge, for those who maintain that children cannot be raised without a palatial rumpus room and a hills hoist.
Would such a bold idea ever be implemented in fair Sydney, where geography rules and everybody wants a mansion? Absolutely not. But it's worth wondering why, according to Chris Johnson, NSW loses about 20,000 people each year to other states, chiefly Victoria and Queensland. The same does not happen in reverse.
"I think that's driven by the lack of housing," Johnson says.
They're obviously doing something right down there, and it's now imperative that we catch up.
Michael Koziol is a Fairfax journalist.


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